Professional Activities

Editor-in Chief:

• Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR), the first academic research journal focusing on Web services, Idea Group Inc. July 2003 - Present (To be included in EI Compendex in 2005)
• Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing (IJGUC), InderSciences Publisher, 2003 - Present
• Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM), InderSciences Publisher, 2003 - Present
• Founding Editor, IEEE Task Force on E-Commerce Newsletter, Jan. 2002 - Dec. 2003

Associate Editor: 

• Associate Editor, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (ECRA), 2002-Present
• Associate Editor, ACM SIGecom Exchange, 2002-Present

General Chair & Program Committee Chair: 

• General Co-Chair of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2004), September 15-18 2004, Shanghai, China
• General Chair of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2004), July 6-9, 2004, San Diego, California, USA.
• General Co-Chair of the 2004 IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC 2004), July 6-9, 2004, San Diego, California, USA.
• Program Co-Chair, 2004 European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS 2004), Erfurt, Germany, September 27-30, 2004, ( formerly: International Conference on Web Services Europe (ICWS-Europe)
• Program Co-Chair, The 6th International Symposium on Multimedia Software Engineering (MSE 2004), December 13-15, 2004, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
• Program Co-Chair, The 2003 International Conference on Web Services - Europe (ICWS-Europe'03), Erfurt, Germany, Sept. 23-24, 2003
• General Chair and Program Chair, The First International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'03), June 23 - 26, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
• Program Co-Chair, IEEE Conference on E-Commerce (CEC'03), June 24-27 2003, Newport Beach, California, USA

Technical Community Chair(s)

• Founder, IEEE Services Computing Forum (an official IEEE virtual community, https://www.ieeecommunities.org/services ) , 2004- Present
• Chair, Technical Steering Committee (a.k.a. technical Community) for Services Computing (TSC-SC), IEEE Computer Society, Nov. 2003 -Present
• Vice Chair, Communication for IEEE Task Force on E-Commerce, 2002- Present
• Vice President (Year 2003), e-Business Society, Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST), USA

Other Chairs:

• Porgram Vice-Chair, 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'04), September 20-24, 2004, King Wing Hot Spring Hotel, Beijing, China.(URL: http://www.maebashi-it.org/WI04)
• Publicity Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service, http://bikmrdc.lm.fju.edu.tw/eee04/, March 29-31, 2004
• Steering Committee Member, The Second International Workshop on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 2003), Dec. 7- 10, 2003, Shanghai, China.
• Industrial Co-Chair, The Fifth International Symposium on Multimedia Software Engineering (MSE2003),December 10-12, 2003 Taichung, Taiwan, ROC, http://mse2003.ece.uci.edu/
• Publication Chair and Member of Program Committee of IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia Software Engineering (MSE 2002). (plus Track Chair of Web Services & Multimedia).

Web Services Standard Activity:

• As the representative of IEEE, LJ Zhang is a member of the ISO/IEC JTC 1 Web Services Study Group
• Member of the Standards Activities Board of IEEE Computer Society, Liaison of JTC1 Web Services Study Group (http://www.computer.org/standards/board.htm)

Program Committee Member:

• Program Committee Member, the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2004).
• Member, Program Committee of Multimedia Technologies and Services Symposium at the 2004 International Conference on Communications (ICC 2004), June 20-24 2004, Paris, France
• Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service, http://bikmrdc.lm.fju.edu.tw/eee04/, March 29-31, 2004
• Program Committee Member, the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003).
• Member, Program Committee of Globecom 2003 - Next Generation Networks and Internet, December 1-5 2003, San Francisco, CA, USA
• Member of Program Committee, 4th International Workshop on Grid Computing (GRID'2003), http://www.gridcomputing.org/
• Member of Program Committees of International Conference on Internet Computing (IC’03),June 23 - 26, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
• Member of Program Committee, The Third International Symposium on Electronic Commerce (ISEC-02), October 18-19, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.
• Member of Program Committee, 3rd International Workshop on Grid Computing (GRID'2002), Baltimore, MD, 18th November 2002, http://www.gridcomputing.org/. 
• Member of Program Committees of International Conference on Internet Computing (IC’02) (Session Chair, Web Services Computing), IC-AI'02, CIC'02 and SERP'02
• Member of Program Committee, IBM Academy – Business Process Integration Conference, May 21-22, 2002

• Senior Member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communication Society (2001)
• Member of ACM (in 2000)
• Member of the IASTED Technical Committee on The Web, Internet, and Multimedia for the term 2002-2005, http://www.iasted.com/

Keynote/Invited Speeches:

• Invited Presentation in Session for Information Sharing and Information Technology, The 4th Annual Forum on City Informatization In the Asia-Pacific Region(CIAPR IV - Shanghai 2004), May 20-21, 2004
• Keynote, The First China International Conference on E-Commerce Technology, Fuzhou, China, May 17-19, 2004. (site 1)
• On-demand Business Collaboration Enablement with Services Computing, Keynote Speech, 2003 International Workshop on Grid and Collaborative Computing (GCC 2003), Shanghai, China. Dec 6-9, 2003.
• Business Grid, Invited Speech, International Digital City and City Grid Forum, Shanghai, China, Nov. 6, 2003 (Report 1 in Chinese, Report 2 in Chinese)
• Liang-Jie Zhang, Jen-Yao Chung, Business Grid, OMG Web Services Workshop, April 22-25, 2003, Philadelphia, PA, USA
• Liang-Jie Zhang, Jen-Yao Chung, Henry Chang, Model Driven Dynamic Composition of Web Services Flow for Business Process Integration, OMG Web Services Workshop, April 22-25, 2003, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Reviewer

• IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
• IEEE Transactions on System, Man, and Cybernetics
• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge Data Engineering
• ACM SIGecom Exchange
• Electronic Commerce Research and Application
• IEEE IT professional Magazine
• Others

Special Sessions and Tracks in 2002

Web Services Computing at IC'02

The technical format ensures each of these self-contained business services is an application that will easily integrate with other services to create a complete business process. This interoperability allows businesses to dynamically publish, discover, and aggregate a range of Web services through the Internet to more easily create innovative products, business processes and value chains... 

 

Call for Papers: Web Services Computing
June 24 - 27, 2002, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
http://www.uet.e-technik.uni-kassel.de/~IC02  

Session Chair: Dr. Liang-Jie Zhang

Web Services and Grid Computing at SCI'2002

A typical usage of Web Services is Dynamic e-business integration, which is the dynamic adaptation of business processes and associated systems to support changing business scenarios. The Grid Computing is the key to advancing e-business into the future and the next step in the evolution of the Internet towards a true computing platform. In general, companies offering grid-based Web Service will tap new revenue streams as valuable data created on a grid system becomes information that can be sold via Web Service to partners or subscribers... 

Call for Papers: Web Services and Grid Computing
July 14-18, 2002, Orlando, Florida (USA)

http://www.iiis.org/sci2002/ 

Session Chair: Dr. Jen-Yao Chung and Dr. Liang-Jie Zhang

 

Web Services and Multimedia Track at MSE'2002

The typical usages of Web Services for multimedia are media content management, media streaming and interactive application development. With the advancement of wireless information appliances, Web Services interfaces provide a means to enable the content or service can be created once and accessed by multiple SOAP-enabled devices such as Wireless phones, Palm devices, set-top boxes as well as regular Web browsers. This special track at MSE'2002 is the first attempt to provide an opportunity for researchers and engineers to exchange ideas regarding Multimedia and emerging Web Services technology in the world ... 

 

Call for Papers: Web Services and Multimedia
December 11-13, 2002, Newport Beach, California, USA
http://mse2002.ece.uci.edu/  

Track Chair: Dr. Liang-Jie Zhang